I thought I’d share an article I wrote for a local real estate newsletter about enhancing curb appeal, both in the short-term and in the long-term. When preparing your home for sale and thinking about increasing ‘curb appeal’ don’t forget to consider your landscaping too. Exterior staging involves much more than simply fixing broken shutters or hiding [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Enhancing Curb Appeal
Posted in Landscape Design on September 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Book Preview: Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love
Posted in Book Previews on September 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Inspiring photos and advice I like the premise of Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love by Julie Moir Messervy - your home doesn’t end with the boundaries of your four walls. Most homeowners have no problem choosing new paint colors, furniture or rugs to update their interior space but once it’s time to look at outdoor [...]
Compost Recipe
Posted in Sustainable Gardening on September 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Compost is an essential tool in any sustainable gardener’s tool box. To make good compost, you don’t need any fancy or expensive equipment. Manufactured compost bins can be helpful if you have limited space, just keep in mind they won’t make your compost any better or quicker. What you do need is a good ‘recipe’ for compost. Like [...]
Deer Repellent Effectiveness
Posted in Deer-resistant, Gardening in Connecticut, Zone 6 gardening on September 23, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Do deer repellents really work? I constantly ask myself that question since, in my garden here in southwestern Connecticut (zone 6), what works one day doesn’t seem to work the next. It can be exceedingly frustrating to try and protect ‘deer-resistant’ plants, I layer deer repellents, spray accordingly to the manufacturer’s guidelines and even try [...]
Grass, The New Lawn-Alternative
Posted in Sustainable Gardening, tagged Garden Rant, grass seed mix that requires less resources, lawn alternative on September 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
For years, sustainable gardening advocates have been telling homeowners about all the benefits of reducing the size of their lawns. Lawns are resource intensive – most homeowners dump way too much time, energy, chemicals and fossil fuels into their annual lawn care routine. Plenty of articles have been written about the wide array of lawn [...]
Book Preview: The Perennial Care Manual – A Plant-by-Plant Guide: What to Do & When to Do It
Posted in Book Previews on September 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A Must-Have for Novice and Seasoned Gardeners Alike The Perennial Care Manual – A Plant-by-Plant Guide: What to Do & When to Do It is a no-nonsense, easy to read and understand guide to a wide array of perennials. I can sum up my impressions of this new book by Nan Ondra in three words…Buy this [...]
Notes from my Test Garden…Chasmanthium latifolium
Posted in Deer-resistant, Natives, Test Garden on September 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Chasmanthium latifolium. If you’ve ever heard of it, you probably know it by one of its many common names…Northern sea oats, quaking oats, Indian wood oats or flathead oats. I call it Northern Sea Oats and I was first drawn to this plant because of its unique sea heads. When I started looking into it’s site [...]
September 2009 Bloom Day
Posted in Bloom Day, Gardening in Connecticut on September 15, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Even though the calendar says it’s still summer, my garden says it’s fall already. And I couldn’t be happier to put the summer behind me. Here in Stamford, CT (zone 6), we had the wettest June on record, followed by a July marked by intermittent storms that brought torrential downpours, followed by an August filled [...]
GGW’s September Picture This Entry
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Gardening Inspiration, Natives on September 14, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The topic of September’s Picture This Contest hosted by the folks over at Gardening Gone Wild is ornamental grasses. Like many gardeners, I love using ornamental grasses in my garden, either as large specimens or interplanted in a mixed border with shrubs and perennials. Years ago, I started with several varieties of miscanthus and pennisetum that [...]
Welcoming Buttercup Winterhazel to my Garden
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Gardening Inspiration, Plant Possibilities, Test Garden on September 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today was the annual fall plant sale at the Bartlett Arboretum, an event gardeners in and around Stamford, CT eagerly await. I have been going to the Bartlett’s plant sales for years and I always seem to find some interesting treasures. Today I purchased a Buttercup Winterhazel (Corylopsis pauciflora). As I look around my [...]
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